Salvador Dali

News about Salvador Dali, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 19, 2015

Pilar Abel files lawsuit in Spain asking court to recognize her as daughter of Surrealist painter Salvador Dali, and perhaps grant her share of hundreds of millions of euros worth of paintings Dali bequeathed to the Spanish state upon his death in 1989; claims her mother had clandestine love affair with Dali in the 1950s. MORE

May. 7, 2014

Spring auction season gets off to a tepid start at Christie’s, where Impressionist and modern art by Picasso, Kandinsky and Dali brings far less than expected. MORE

Feb. 20, 2013

Phivos Istavrioglou pleads not guilty to theft of Dali drawing from Upper East Side gallery in June 2012; officials say he was caught by ingenious detective work that began with a fingerprint on stolen juice bottle. MORE

Jun. 30, 2012

Drawing by Surrealist artist Salvador Dali that was stolen from a Manhattan gallery in June is sent back to New York from Europe by Express Mail; package is intercepted at Kennedy International Airport by detectives who had been contacted by the gallery's owner. MORE

Jun. 23, 2012

Man who stole a $150,000 Salvador Dali drawing from a Manhattan art gallery on Madison Avenue in broad daylight used only a black shopping bag as his tool, staged no elaborate diversion and wore no disguise. MORE

Jun. 22, 2012

Police are searching for a man they say entered the Venus Over Manhattan gallery on the Upper East Side and plucked a Salvador Dali painting, valued at approximately $150,000, from one of its walls. MORE